Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Last week, Fox Business traveled with U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to the Walls Alligator Farm in Springfield, LA. On the visit, Cassidy and Secretary Chavez-DeRemer touted pro-worker policies in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first GLP-1 drug to treat patients with metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that affects approximately 14.9 million...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted multiple U.S. hospital systems and health providers that have stopped providing dangerous, life-altering gender transition services to children. This is a direct result of President Trump and Cassidy’s...

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside 10 Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon expressing outrage over the Trump administration’s harmful decision to indefinitely pause student loan forgiveness under...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Texas Department of State Health Services formally declaring the end of the measles outbreak in West Texas. It has been more than 42 days since a new measles case was reported in...

WASHINGTON – Earlier today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) joined Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley, and other education leaders at Jefferson Terrace Academy in Baton Rouge, LA for a roundtable on how to strengthen literacy efforts to help children read better and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a new report outlining ways to improve child literacy and fix the broken K-12 education system to better serve American children and families. According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational...

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 4 — Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) raised serious concerns over UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) continued failure to defend against cyberattacks and protect patients’ sensitive health data. “The recently reported hack of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted the historic reforms included in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) to fix America’s broken higher education system to better serve students, workers, and families. The HELP Committee portion of...

WASHINGTON – This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to favorably report six bipartisan pieces of legislation to strengthen Americans’ access to quality health care and retirement benefits. The bills include: S. 2292, Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Amendments S. 1440, Uniformed Services Leave...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on how to lower health costs and make health care more affordable for American patients. Click here to watch the hearing live. Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Dr. Susan Monarez to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by a final vote of 51 to 47. The HELP Committee previously approved her...

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, July 30, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will vote on multiple pieces of legislation aimed at strengthening Americans’ access to quality health care and retirement. Agenda: S. 2292, Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Amendments S. 1440, Uniformed Services Leave Parity Act S. 2398,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the College Transparency Act (CTA), which ensures that students and families have better information as they consider higher education opportunities. U.S. Representatives...

WASHINGTON, July 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside seven Democratic members of the committee, launched an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s decision to gut the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...

WASHINGTON, July 28 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), will hold a press conference with nursing home leaders and providers from across the country to raise the alarm about the disastrous impact of nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act...

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 25 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced it would release nearly $5.5 billion in federal public education funding that it had illegally withheld — including nearly $20...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) highlighted the importance of fully implementing the No Surprises Act, which protects patients from surprise medical bills and ensures they know the cost of...

WASHINGTON, July 24 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today introduced the Pay Teachers Act after hearing from more than 200 teachers and educational leaders from across the country during a town hall at the U.S. Capitol. At a time when school districts nationwide...